2006-2007 NFL Season Discussion

Lot of potential blowouts this week.

Well, in the more interesting match-ups, I'll go with San Diego over Baltimore (San Diego's first opponent worth a damn, but Baltimore last week against the Browns was just plain messy - they should play harder to make up for it), New England just over Cincinnati (provided Brady is over the Post-Deion Blues, that is), and Seattle over Chicago (with a chance of the Bears playing spoiler - if Seattle's still riding the high of trouncing New York's defense, they could be in for a hangover).

That's my take, anyway.

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OK, en route to bed (early for me), I decided to try some picks again and improve on last week's 1-2 performance. Only the trickier ones, now (i.e. no points for guessing who'll win in Indy vs the Titans)...

Philadelphia over Dallas - I'm going to go ahead and say that if Dallas focuses on trying to make sure Owens has a good stat day, it'll end miserably for them. The Eagles have to be expecting that to some degree, and furtermore Owens just isn't playing that well. Good yardage against Tennessee yes, but against Tennessee (oh, and no touchdowns, at that). Bledsoe-Glenn is working much better, but the Eagles defensive line is not the Titans defensive line, and Drew should expect to get plenty of grass stains on his pants.

San Diego over Pittsburgh - Statement time. San Diego put the game on their defense and got burned, and Pittsburgh has had two weeks to get the rust out of their QB and special teams. I honestly don't think Ben will be himself for at least a few weeks more (or longer, if he gets injured Simms-style), and with effective clock-milking, the Chargers could do much to keep him, and their own defense, off the field.

Baltimore over Denver - I don't consider Denver to be a great team, just an efficent one. They'll probably focus their defensive game plan around turning the new guy on the Raven O-line into a revolving door, naturally, but Denver has a habit of tuning out of their own games early, and as the last two weeks have shown, such teams are Baltimore's favorite dish.

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Well, yes, the Bears' schedule is fairly light, but life's been kind of hard on them since the last time they were in the playoffs, and teams with rough times get softer schedules, for the most part (though in contrast the Patriots schedule is almost inexcusably soft for a team that made it through Wild Card Weekend the previous year...who knows why). Which isn't to say that a 'soft' team can't still provide a challenge. Heck, ask Peyton Manning if he thinks the Titans are tough or not.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I won't say I forgot to make picks...I'll say this was my bye week....yeah, that's it. Would've wound up with a big old goose egg with my woulda-picks though...what a week.

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Originally Posted by dagget

Admist multiple power outages throughout the night, looks like DA BEARS are having some problems tonight. Aren't they and the Colts the only two undefeated teams left this year?

The two kind of compliment each other pretty well, actually. The Colts run defense and special teams are poor, but can still win off of their quarterback. The Bears can hand over the ball on offense 6 or 7 freaking times and still win through the strength of their run defense and special teams. A Super Bowl between the two might just rip the fabric of the universe.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hey, I finally remembered to do this again on Saturday night! Ironically, the only game I see a semi-serious contest going on is Chicago v New England.

Truth be told, I dunno. I'm pretty big on the Patriots in general, and Grossman certainly plays badly enough to lose for his team lately, but the Bears defense is a well-oiled machine, and if the Colts pass defense can make Brady look buffoonish, Da Bears' certainly can. Still, when the Patriots are good they're damned good, and as mentioned, I'm a Pats fanboy at heart. So I'll stick with a Patriots pick. Do me proud, boys.

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Well, I'm a Patriots fan by nature, so of course I'd like to see them in the big one, but personal druthers aside, I'm actually hoping for a Chargers-Saints bowl, or as it would probably be called, the Drew Brees Grudge Match.

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